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Routledge (2005), Edition: 1, 384 pages
Description
In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.
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Introduction: No Turning Back.
I. African Americans and the New Racism.
1. Why Black Sexual Politics?
2. The Past is Ever Present.
3. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds.
II. Rethinking Black Gender Ideology.
4. Get your Freak on: Sex, Babies, Images of Black Femininity
5. Booty Call: Sex,
6. Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Idealogy.
III. Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics
7. Assume the Position: Changing contours of sexual violence.
8. No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender matter.
9. Why We Can't Wait: Black sexual politics and the challenge of HIV/AIDS.
Afterword: Power of a Free Mind.
With Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index.
I. African Americans and the New Racism.
1. Why Black Sexual Politics?
2. The Past is Ever Present.
3. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds.
II. Rethinking Black Gender Ideology.
4. Get your Freak on: Sex, Babies, Images of Black Femininity
5. Booty Call: Sex,
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Violence and Image of Black Masculinity.6. Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Idealogy.
III. Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics
7. Assume the Position: Changing contours of sexual violence.
8. No Storybook Romance: How Race and Gender matter.
9. Why We Can't Wait: Black sexual politics and the challenge of HIV/AIDS.
Afterword: Power of a Free Mind.
With Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2004
Physical description
384 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
041595150X / 9780415951500